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By A. F. of L. Newa Service.
Atlantic City, N. J.—Emphasis on
the necessity of all workers being
organized in strong trade unions to
secure their rights even under the
most favorable labor legislation, fea
tured the report of the executive
council of the American Federation
of Labor to the annual convention of
the federation here.
The report also declared that or
ganized labor should exercise an im
portant influence in determining the
new economic and social policies
which are now transforming the
world.
Trade Unions Are Workers' Main
Support in Struggle for Justice
A. F. of L. Council Declares
In the introduction to their report
the council said:
'The past year has been one of mo
mentous consequence to the labor
movement of the country. The enact
ment of federal substantive law recog
nizing labor's right to organize in
unions so as to have the machinery
for collective bargaining, with the
consequent obligation devolving upon
employers to respect this right and to
do their part in putting it into effect,
was an event of great importance.
'The year has also brought sub
stantial gains in average paid-up un
ion membership. Behind this gain we
know there is an additional
group of workers who have pledged
allegiance to the union cause but have
been prevented by unemployment
from regular payment of union dues.
'The events of the past few years
have demonstrated conclusively that
organization is the one method by
which wage earners and small salaried
workers can have the machinery for
sustain- ~rlf rtnd that while
Miss Perkins said that the American
people fervently desire the security
provided by the social security act and
it is up to the states to make them
available without any unnecessary
delay.
Atlantic City Convention Is Told That Laws Enacted To
Benefit the Masses Are of Small Value Unless Backed
Up By Strong Labor Organizations.
MISS PERKINS
Asks Prompt State Aid For
Security Act
Asheville, N. C. (ILNS)—Benefits
of the security legislation pased by
congress should be made available
soon to all the eligible wage earners,
dependent and crippled children, the
needy and aged, widowed mothers and
blind of the nation, Sceretary of La
bor Frances Perkins told the second
annual conference on labor legislation
here.
The cost of social security would
be comparatively small for some
years to come, Miss Perkins said,
pointing out that this was deliber
ately planned so that the incidence
of tax might be gradual, as business
and workers would be paying the tax
in the early years of recovery from
the depression, and therefore the full
prosperity level had been reached.
Sees Relief Costs Cut
"Unemployment insurance will
within a short time considerably
lighten the burden of caring for the
unemployed," she said. "It will ma
terially reduce relief costs in the
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legislation may provide opportunities
foi progress, group organization is
the agency through which results are
secured. The establishment of this
fact will tremendously facilitate or
ganization during the coming years.
"The labor movement has an oppor
tunity to take a determining part in
the shifting and shaping of national
economic and social policies which are
remaking the world in which we live
Organized use of intelligence and ex
perience will enable us to establish a
new status for those who do not pro
ductive work, a recognition and protec
tion of the right of human beings to
life, self-respect and dignity, and to
full benefits from the work and scien
tific discoveries which are our social
heritage from past work as well as
the results of joint work of the pres
ent generations.
'The establishment of rights car
ries with them duties and as it gains
in status the organized labor move
ment will increasingly asume duties
to its membership, employers and the
public. We must decide all policies in
the light of the welfare of each group
as a part of the whole movement."
"We face perplexing problems and
serious difficulties but we live in an
age of unparalleled oportunity because
it is an age of changes. With unity
and co-operation in our ranks, with de
sire to find solutions for our problems,
with subordination of smaller matters
to the best interests and progress
of the labor movement, we can make
the coming years an epoch of union
organization and union progress for
the advancement and progress of la
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The conference adopted a report
saying that government in America,
both state and nation, was destined
to engage not only in slum reclama
tion projects but in low rental hous
ing and an adequate supply of good
dwelings for the entire population.
The report declared that an adequate
housing pro-gram now would help sta
bilize recovery progress.
Building Has "Tonic Effect"
A housing program "stimulates
more lines of production and distri
bution than does any other single
enterprise and so has a tonic effect
on our whole economic structure,"
said the report.
"In the lower income levels—slum
reclamation and provision of low
rental housing—there is no possibility
of an excess supply in terms of hu
man need during the near future."
The conference was attended by
labor leaders, state and federal labor
officials and executives of welfare or
ganizations from 40 states.
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Atlantic City, N. J. (ILNS)—Word
that industry is on the rise was
brought to the American Federation
of Labor convention here by Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins as the con
vention swung into its first week of
work.
Latest reports of the department
of labor leave no doubt that the dur
able goods industries "have actually
made the turn," she told the delegates.
In adition to Miss Perkins' adress,
the delegates heard an address by Ray
Murphy, newly elected commander of
the American Legion, who invited the
A. F. of L. to form a united front with
his organization to fight communism
and "all subversive influences." Presi
dent Wiliam Green, of the federation,
replying to Comander Murphy, accept
ed the invitation to co-operate.
Constitution Charges Favored
Commander Murphy declared that
the American Legion favored making
whatever changes in the federal con
stitution are 'needed for the common
good.'
Secretary Perkins expressed the
opinion that it was highly significant
that the durable goods industries were
making progress. She cited specific
ally figures on the construction indus
try, steel output, automobile, machin
ery and machine tools.
'Take, for example, the machine
tool industry, which takes the first
step in building up new machinery
and equipment to reflect production
increase," Miss Perkins said. "The Au
gust index of machine tool orders is
125.8, compared with 100 in 1926. The
average for the first eight months of
this year is 82.5, or nearly double the
average for all last year. As a mat
ter of fact, business reported for the
eight months is 18 per cent above the
twelve-month figure for 1934."
Jobs and Wages Rise
While admitting that millions of
workers were still idle, Miss Perkins
said labor department statisticians es
timated that more than 4,400,000 who
were jobless in March, 1933, had found
work in private industry. In the same
period weekly wage payments in the
manufacturing industries increased
from $75,000,000 to more than $140,
000,000, she said.
The secretary said these figures
were 'heartening" and spoke well for
the measures instituted by President
Roosevelt in an "effort to bring about
healthy and substantial recovery."
Miss Perkins referred to the social
security act as "one of the most use
ful single pieces of federal legislation
in the interest of wage earners in the
history of the United States." Presi­
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Labor Convention
No Doubt Durable Goods Industries Have Made
Turn, Secretary of Labor Perkins Declares,
Citing Figures She Calls Heartening—Co
operation with American Legion to Fight
Communists Promised.
dent Green, who introduced Miss Per
kins, promised that organized labor
would continue its efforts to have the
Social Security Board placed within
the department of labor.
Speaking of the Wagner labor rela
tions act, Miss Perkins said passage
of the act does not mean merely that
strikes and lockouts will be fewer, but
that the fundamental causes of the
conflicts can be intelligently diagnosed
and remedied. Both labor and em
ployers, she said, are already showing
a growing disposition to take advan
tage of government agencies in the
settlement of their disputes.
New Fairness Promised
"With the guarantee to labor of
the right of free association and the
provision of necessary safeguards
against abuse of the right, with the
establishment of the National Labor
Relations Board and with the assist
ance of such special industrial boards
as in textiles, steel, railroad trans
portation and bituminous coal and the
conciliation service of the United
States Department of Labor, we
should be able to look forward con
fidently to a fairer and more scien
tific handling of the problems involved
in relationships between employers
and employes than we have ever had
before.
"This means not merely that strikes
and lockouts may be fewer, but that
the fundamental causes of such dis
orders may be intelligently diagnosed
and remedies quickly provided through
the agency of such boards. Wage earn
ers and employers have shown a grow
ing disposition to avail themselves of
the fair and impaitial services of
these government boards. They are
really set up for the purpose of keep
ing industrial peace for the benefit
of employers, workers and in the pub
lie interest."
Pretzel Bakery Drivers
Join Union Are Fired
By A. F. of L. News Service.
Baltimore, Md.—The Baltimore
Central Labor Union unanimously
adopted a resolution putting the
Becker Pretzel Bakeries, Inc., on or
ganized labor's unfair list for the con
cern's aetion in victimizing its union
chauffeurs.
Accordng to the evidence before the
central body, after 80 per cent of the
concern's drivers had joined Local Un
ion No. 355 they were discharged by
company officials who are alleged to
have said they 'would not deal with
their chauffeurs or helpers through
any union."
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Taylor C. Lowe, president of the lo
cal union, said that when the Regional
Labor Board director advised the com
pany officials that they were subject
to the Wagner labor disputes act they
stored all their trucks, discharged their
chauffeurs and helpers and contract
ed out all their hauling and delivering
to two companies notoriously unfair
to the drivers' union.
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LABOR HEAD
Demands Federal Investiga
tion of Air Crash
Chicago (ILNS)—John Fitzpatrick,
president of the Chicago Federation
of Labor, continues his demand for
a federal government investigation
of labor troubles which, he charges,
may have led to the recent airplane
disaster near Cheyenne, which cost 12
lives.
"We advised," runs Fitzpatrick's
telegram to the department of labor
at Washington, "that first-class me
chanics were discharged (by the Unit
ed Airplanes) and replaced by students
or apprentices from aeronautic schools.
We also advised that the United Air
lines moved its shop from Chicago
to Cheyenne, Wyo., to avoid the em
ployment of first-class mechanics
also that they required employes to
sign a yellow dog contract."
"The charges are ridiculous," said
W. A. Patterson, president of the
United Airlines. "United Airlines has
no labor controversies anywhei-e on
its entire system. ... It is significant
that our employes are not active in
supporting the Chicago labor group's
publicity attack."
Though holding thatt Fitzpatrick
is urging an investigation to help
his campaign to unionize aircraft
workers, Patterson did not deny the
charge of the yellow dog contract.
AFL Aluminum Workers
Seek New Agreement
Pittsburgh, Pa.—The American
Federation of Labor Aluminum Work
ers' Unions from various eastern
plants of the American Aluminum
Company of America were in Pitts
burgh the last week in September to
negotiate a revision of the agree
ment which had been in operation
the past year.
Although the agreement expired
union representatives and company
early in the month, it was agreed by
officials that its terms should apply
until a new agreement was signed.
Union officials said certain revi
sions were desired respecting wages,
hours and seniority.
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